The following are declared to be nuisances:
1. Erecting, continuing or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious fumes, offensive smells, or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or the public.
2. Causing or suffering any offal, filth or noisome substance to accumulate or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others.
3. Obstructing or impeding without legal authority the passage of the natural flow of water.
4. Corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream or pond, or unlawfully diverting the same from its natural course or state, to the injury or prejudice of others.
5. Obstructing or encumbering, by fences, buildings or otherwise, the public roads, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places or burying grounds.
6. Houses of ill fame, kept for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness; gambling houses; places resorted to by persons participating in criminal gang activity prohibited by Chapter 723A of the Code of Iowa or places resorted to by persons using controlled substances, as defined in Section 124.101 of the Code of Iowa, in violation of law, or houses where drunkenness, quarreling, fighting or breaches of the peace are carried on or permitted to the disturbance of others.
7. Cotton-bearing cottonwood trees and all other cotton-bearing poplar trees in the City.
8. Depositing or storing of flammable junk, such as old rags, rope, cordage, rubber, bones and paper, by any person, including a dealer in such articles, unless in a building of fire resistant construction or in a fireproof container, and the storing of all explosives, flammable liquids and other dangerous substances in a dangerous and/or unsafe manner or in a manner other than allowed by law.
9. All primary noxious weeds upon public or private property.
10. Dense growth of all weeds, grass, vines, brush or other vegetation in the City so as to constitute a health, safety or fire hazard, or which otherwise constitutes a nuisance under this chapter. For purposes of this subsection, all growths of grass or weeds in excess of eight (8) inches in height shall be deemed to be a nuisance. Exempt from this subsection are growths on agricultural property pursuant to the Conservation Reserve Program and growths used primarily for educational and/or research purposes, so long as the growths are controlled.
(Ord. 727 - Feb. 07 Supp.)
11. Trees infected with Dutch Elm Disease.
12. Discharge of wastewater, as defined in Chapter 95, in violation of the discharge restrictions in Chapter 98, which includes effluent from septic tanks or drain fields running or ponding on the ground in the open.
13. Any article or substance or growth placed or allowed to grow upon a street, alley, sidewalk, public ground, or in any ditch, waterway or gutter so as to obstruct the drainage or as to be a hazard.
14. Accumulation of rubbish or trash and rank growth of weeds or other vegetation and plants tending to harbor vermin, rodents and other vectors or which are otherwise conducive to hazard.
15. Trees determined to be dangerous to persons or property.
16. Exterior storage of partially dismantled, wrecked, junked, discharged or otherwise non-operating motor vehicles, or any other vehicles, machinery, implements and/or equipment and personal property of any kind which is no longer safely usable for the purpose for which it was manufactured, for a period longer than ten (10) days, except that this subsection does not apply with regard to any vehicle in an enclosed building or so located upon the premises as not to be readily visible from any public place or from any surrounding private property. This subsection further does not apply with regard to any vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place, other than a residential district, and operated in a lawful manner, when the keeping or maintenance of such vehicle is necessary to the operation of such business enterprise, or to a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the City, or any other public agency or entity.
17. Hunting and fishing traps not stored in a safe manner.
18. All diseased or vicious animals running at large.
19. All ponds or pools containing stagnant water for seventy-two (72) hours or longer.
20. The use of common public drinking cups or roller towels.
21. All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks twenty-four (24) hours after snow and ice have ceased falling and/or forming, in violation of the sidewalk ordinance.
(Ord. 876 - Nov. 13 Supp.)
22. Any use of property abutting a public street or sidewalk which permits dirt, rock or debris to accumulate on said street or sidewalk.
23. Discharge or disposal of solid waste, including yard waste as defined in Chapter 105, in violation of the criteria therein.
24. Graffiti as defined under Section 50.02 of this chapter when placed on any surface not primarily intended for such use.
(Ord. 803 - Sep. 09 Supp.)
The foregoing list of nuisances is not intended to be exclusive, and any condition that meets the definition of “nuisance” herein is declared to be a nuisance. Reference is also made to other provisions of this Code of Ordinances which may declare a condition to be a nuisance.